Tory Varney donned the 80-year-old silk organdy gown replete with spaghetti straps and several dozen hook-and-eye closures cascading down the back moments after the vintage dress was unpacked by employees at the Way We Wore boutique in Los Angeles.

Guys with fangs are so last year. This fall, witches are taking over.
You'll find them on HBO's "True Blood," where Sookie will face down a coven this season. They'll be casting spells on their fellow high school students in the CW's "The Secret Circle,"...

They shared the glassy eyes, the stilted smile and the artificially shiny blond hair, but Paris Hilton's wax figure at Madame Tussauds in New York was wearing an outfit that might have made the real celebrity practically melt with shame: The dummy was...

Trying on shoes at a department store, I was struck by how long it took for the salesperson to return from the stock room.
"Where did he go?" I asked author Rachel Shteir, my new shopping companion.
"Now, if you wanted to steal those, you would just...

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The Chicago International Film Festival’s annual Summer Gala has presented its career achievement award, the Silver Hugo, to some of the biggest names in Hollywood — including Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Jodie Foster and Nicolas Cage — and will add “Apocalaypse Now” and “The West Wing” star Martin Sheen to the impressive list Friday.
Sheen will be honored at the annual ceremony at AMC River East, which will show a montage of Sheen’s career...

In “Tower Heist,” opening Friday, a group devastated by a failed Ponzi scheme conspire to rob a businessman’s high-rise. In preparation for the new flick, we asked our staff which unsuspecting individual they would you like to steal from if they could.
•••• The corporate headquarters of Goldman Sachs. Luke Broadwater, reporter, The Baltimore Sun•••• I would steal Arianna Huffington’s accent. Wouldn’t that make a sparkling addition to...

Director Tim Burton goes back to one of his earliest creations to update it with elaborate 3D animation in this bizarre but engaging fantasy. Mourning the loss of his beloved dog, a youngster (voice of Charlie Tahan) uses scientific means to restore life to the canine ... and once others find out, they want to reapply the technique to their own deceased loved ones.
Earlier Burton collaborators Martin Landau ("Ed Wood"), Winona Ryder ("Edward Scissorhands") and Catherine O'Hara ("Beetlejuice") also are...

Movie fans trekking to Telluride, Colo., for the resort town’s annual film festival this weekend are set to see some of the fall’s most anticipated performances, including Bill Murray as FDR in “Hyde Park on Hudson,” Michael Shannon as family man and freelance assassin in “The Iceman,” and Ben Affleck as a CIA agent in “Argo.”
Other high-profile titles screening at the festival, which opens Friday, include “Ginger and Rosa,” filmmaker Sally...